DEFINITION AND TEXT LIST - ENGLISH - LITERATURE Teenage Anti-Hero

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Characteristics in protagonists that merit the label “Anti-hero” can include, but are not limited to: • imperfections that separate them from typically "heroic" characters (selfishness, ignorance, bigotry, etc.); • lack of positive qualities such as "courage, physical prowess, and fortitude," and "generally feel helpless in a world over which they have no control"; • qualities normally belonging to villains (amorality, greed, violent tendencies, etc.) that may be tempered with more human, identifiable traits (confusion, self-hatred, etc.); • noble motives pursued by bending or breaking the law in the belief that "the ends justify the means."

Literature • Roland Deschain from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series Alex, the narrator of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork • Raoul Duke from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Orange. • Loathing in Las Vegas Redmond Barry from William Makepeace • Tyler Durden and the Narrator of Chuck Palahniuk's Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon • Fight Club Patrick Bateman from Bret Easton Ellis' American • Randall Flagg from Stephen King's The Stand, Eyes of Psycho. • the Dragon and The Dark Tower. Leopold Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysses. • Artemis Fowl II from the Artemis Fowl series. Pinkie Brown from Graham Greene's Brighton Rock. • • Gully Foyle from Alfred Bester's The Stars My Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the • • Destination Rye. Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's Conan from the stories by Robert E. Howard, the • • Frankenstein archetypal "amoral swordsman" of the Sword and Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Sorcery genre. • Gatsby Stephen Dedalus from James Joyce's A Portrait of • Gollum from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. the Artist as a Young Man • Grendel from John Gardner's novel of the same Arthur Dent from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide • • name. to the Galaxy series

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• Hamlet from William Shakespeare's play of the same • Dante Hicks, Randal Graves, and Jay & Silent Bob name from Kevin Smith's "View Askewniverse" films • Humbert Humbert from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita • Scottie Ferguson from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo • Iago from William Shakespeare's Othello. • The Firefly family from House of 1000 Corpses and • Hannibal Lecter from a series of novels by Thomas The Devil's Rejects; Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Harris Driftwood, Baby, etc. • Lestat de Lioncourt from Anne Rice's Vampire • Jigsaw from the Saw film series. Chronicles universe • Johnny from Naked • Lucifer/Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost • Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean • Macbeth from William Shakespeare's play of the • Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane same name. • Beatrix Kiddo from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films • Philip Marlowe from Raymond Chandler's The Big • Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The • Mickey and Mallory Knox from Natural Born Killers Lady in the Lake, Playback, The Little Sister, and • Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Poodle Springs • Léon from Léon or The Professional • Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust and • "The Man with No Name," a stock character in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. westerns popularized by Clint Eastwood in films such • Dexter Morgan from the novels Darkly Dreaming as For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, and Dexter in the and The Ugly Dark, later made into a TV series. • Nick Naylor from the film Thank You for Smoking • Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind Tony Montana from Brian De Palma's Scarface • Parker from a series of novels by Donald E. Westlake • Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and • Alexander Portnoy from Philip Roth's Portnoy's Escape From L.A. Complaint • Richard B. Riddick from Pitch Black and The • Raskolnikov from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Chronicles of Riddick Punishment • Lisa Rowe from Girl, Interrupted • Rincewind from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels • Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max series • Mark Renton from Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting • Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from the Star Wars • Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad" series films • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Tom Stoppard's • Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead [49] • Ben Wade from the 2007 version of 3:10 to Yuma • Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair • Napoleon Wilson from John Carpenter's Assault on • Shylock from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Precinct 13 • Tyrone Slothrop from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's • Dawn Weiner of Welcome to the Dollhouse Rainbow • John Wydell from The Devil's Rejects • Severus Snape from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter • Yojimbo's nameless protagonist. • Sam Spade from Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon Television • "The Underground Man", narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground • Kerr Avon in Blake's 7 • Wei Xiaobao from Jinyong's The Deer and the • Edmund Blackadder from BBC's Blackadder series Cauldron • George Costanza from Seinfeld • Yossarian from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 • The Doctor from Doctor Who • James "Sawyer" Ford from Lost • Michael Scofield from Prison Break. Film • Bart Simpson from The Simpsons • Danny Archer from Blood Diamond • Tony Soprano from The Sopranos • Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver • Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel • Brodie Bruce from Mallrats • Al Swearengen from Deadwood • Edmond Burke from Edmond • Lester Burnham from American Beauty Comic books • Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry series Batman • Jack Carter from Get Carter • John Constantine from Hellblazer • Chev Chelios from Crank • Magneto from the X-Men series. • Chucky from the Child's Play series • "V" from V for Vendetta • Michael Corleone from The Godfather trilogy • Wolverine • John Creasy from Man on Fire • • The Dude from The Big Lebowski • Donnie Darko from Donnie Darko

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